Ask HN: My non-savvy friends are telling me to buy stocks. Is a crisis coming?

#1

Post by sidesquid » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 12:00 PM UTC

Hi everyone,

To me it seems like everyone is suddenly talking about stocks, like how the US markets are at a all time high yet I hear my friends who do have any interest in stocks and don’t follow the market saying that they are buying in to ride along to the top just because. And it is starting to ring some bells in my head because that situation was very familiar in 2007. Are you guys leaving the markets now or making any preparations for a potential crisis?

Re: Ask HN: My non-savvy friends are telling me to buy stocks. Is a crisis coming?

#2

Post by troydavis » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

This could have been written at any point in the last 5 years. Don’t try to time the market, it’s a fool’s game.

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#3

Post by Shalle135 » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 12:46 PM UTC

I’ve rearranged my portfolio. Now I mostly focus on smaller cap companies. The stakes are lower but the overall risks and returns are higher.

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#4

Post by kls » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

If you are not day trading, buy good companies with good fundamentals and ride out any lows if there is a dip in the market. Good companies will recover they always do.

Re: Ask HN: My non-savvy friends are telling me to buy stocks. Is a crisis coming?

#5

Post by sidesquid » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

kls wrote: post #4

If you are not day trading, buy good companies with good fundamentals and ride out any lows if there is a dip in the market. Good companies will recover they always do.

Yes that’s what I’m doing as well in this bull situation

Re: Ask HN: My non-savvy friends are telling me to buy stocks. Is a crisis coming?

#6

Post by antstrangler » Fri, Jan 31, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

As of a few years I've been building/maintaining 15-20% liquid assets that just keep pace with inflation. I'll lose a few percent of growth every year I'm wrong, and I will be wrong most years.

I know what it costs me to be wrong. I don't know what the profit is when I'm right.